Health bar problems

APPertizing

Can someone, anyone pleeease explain to my why my health bar is shrinking in total size and not from right to left like in the tutorial? I have followed the tutorial to the letter even down to my health bar size 200x 20 and still no luck! this is really doing my head in now!

tatiang

There are two ways to do a health bar: replicate a small actor (e.g. 10 x 10) a certain number of times based on an attribute such as game.health (index), or constrain the width of a large actor (e.g. 200 x 20) to a multiple of that attribute. The trick is that you have to also constrain the x position (if the bar is horizontal) of the actor so that it doesn't appear to shrink from the middle.

tatiang

Demos are always good so...

tatiang

If you'd like, I can take a look at your rules and see what's causing the problem. Feel free to send me a message with a link to your project file or to post it here.

APPertizing

Thanks tatiang, I did constrain the x position just like in t-shirt booths tutorial but my image would not shrink from both sides to the middle, it was shrinking from all 4 sides at once. I tried your method from start to finish and now my health bar doesnt even show on the screen?